“I just don’t think at this moment in time when we have a huge kind of surge at our border sending a message that we’re going to decriminalize crossings is the right thing to do,” Delaney told Hill.TV during an interview on “Rising.”

“My wife and I were at the border couple of months ago helping asylum seekers make their case, so I saw first hand,” he added. “These people are actually coming for very legitimate reasons — unless we stabilize what’s going on in those countries we’re going to continue to see this refugee crisis.”

“Let’s pass a law saying children cannot be separated from their parents, which is the law I’m in favor of,” Delaney said. “You do that and you don’t have to decriminalize border crossings and I just don’t think decriminalizing border crossings when we clearly have a crisis at our southern border, we clearly have a massive amount of migration.”

Many of the Democratic presidential candidates on stage said they favored some form of decriminalizing border crossings during last week's debates.

Delaney said he backs legal immigration for the sake of the U.S. economy.

“The worst thing for a country is to shrink — the worst thing, economically,” he said, pointing to Russia and Japan as prime examples of countries with hardline immigration policies. “So imagine your country is getting older, you have all of these obligations and you have no new workers to effectively pay the bills.”

The House Oversight and Reform Committee is expected to hold a hearing on Wednesday over the treatment of migrant children by the Department of Homeland Security.

A former campaign staffer on President Obama's 2008 campaign is urging Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) to "own" her policy positions, saying such a move will help regain her momentum in the primary race.

College students named Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) the winner of Thursday night’s third Democratic presidential debate, according to a Chegg-College Pulse poll conducted immediately following the event.

The founder and host of the left-leaning online show "The Young Turks" named tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) as the top winners of Thursday night’s Democratic primary debate.

The founder of the progressive online channel "The Young Turks" on Friday criticized former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro for going after former Vice President Joe Biden during last night’s debate, saying the move was too aggressive.

A top campaign official for Sen. Bernie Sanders told Hill.TV on Thursday that the Democratic presidential candidate not only has both the right ideas to move the U.S. forward and the courage to carry them out.

A Trump campaign aide on Thursday said in an appearance on Hill.TV that every time 2020 Democratic presidential contenders take the stage the president wins, adding that many of the White House hopefuls are “alienating” voters with policy proposals such as the Green New

Republican strategist Lauren Claffey said Wednesday that Wall Street and others have become fearful about the possibility of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) becoming president because she’s built a reputation on taking on big banks.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and former tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang have been climbing in the Democratic presidential race, while the three front-runners – former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Sen.

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An overwhelming majority of voters said in a new national survey that they prefer their elected official to reach across the aisle to find solutions rather than stick to working with members of their own party.